I proposed this would be the Sky Event after the last recent eclipse was not very significant.
My daughter and son in law visited us in August 2017 then and were going to drive upstate a big to see it better but soon realized they wouldn’t even make it in time due to massive traffic on I-5. So they went to a local open spot (no fir trees) and viewed. I stayed at home and watched. Got very dark and all the birds sang their nightime songs.
The October Annular eclipse wouldn’t be “event worthy” as it was a “ring of fire” display, the moon wasn’t quite close enough to completely cover the sun.
It passed right over my Nevada place and I was out there that week for it, got a few neat pics (I’ll send you a couple you can repost). It just got somewhat dimmer during the annular.